Concealment and the Single Blogger
Confidantes and Hiding in Plain Sight When I first started blogging, nearly five years ago, my main purpose was to show how smart I am and what a good writer I am. I knew almost nothing about...
View ArticleWe Don’t Accept Charity, Mister
The Kindness of Strangers The Cartwrights Bonanza was a long-running television series on Sunday nights in the 1960′s and the early 1970′s. The main character was a widower who was raising three sons,...
View ArticleA Box Framed with Grass
I Work in a Box It’s a cubicle life, my life, 160 hours per month. I work in a huge building for a major bank in Minnesota. (Yes, we received a ton of TARP money.) I take phone calls eight hours a...
View ArticleAnd Then You Wait
One day your doctor calls. You think to yourself, “Huh. Last clinic, it would have been a nurse. Whatever.” And the news is good: Blood work, even the special stuff they did because you’ve not been...
View ArticleStill Not Dead
To start: I’m fine, or I will be. (Better, Jason?) To continue: If you ever have to go to the emergency room, don’t forget to bring a book. It will distract you from Larry King in the waiting room and...
View ArticleHey, Dad
Circle of Life and All That Harold Haubrich died on March 2, 2010. It wasn’t a surprise other than that he lasted a few more days than we expected. He had made his own decision to discontinue the...
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